Ryan Blaney takes North Wilkesboro Cup pole after qualifying cancelled

When qualifying gets washed out, the metric system becomes the tiebreaker — and it rewards consistency across the season rather than a single hot lap, which means pole position here reflects championship standing more than outright speed on this particular track. For Blaney and Team Penske, it's a useful front-row start without having to earn it in the traditional sense, though the field behind him will be equally shaped by season-long performance rather than setup work done this weekend. The fact that practice did run later in the evening means teams at least got some data on the repaved North Wilkesboro surface, so the grid order may not reflect actual race pace at all.